Thirteen years apart... the Iraq wars. A critical cognitive analysis of the use of metaphors in the representation of the two wars
This study is a multidisciplinary approach toward examining the conceptualization of critical political events in the language of people in power. The topic of investigation tackles two major wars; the First Iraq War 1990-1991, as well as the Second Iraq War 2003. This study is particularity interes...
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| Tipo de recurso: | tesis doctoral |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2020 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) |
| Repositorio: | Docta Complutense |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/10956 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/10956 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | 811.111'373.612.2(043.2) English language Metaphor Iraq wars Lengua inglesa Metáfora Guerras de Irak Filología inglesa 5505.10 Filología |
| Sumario: | This study is a multidisciplinary approach toward examining the conceptualization of critical political events in the language of people in power. The topic of investigation tackles two major wars; the First Iraq War 1990-1991, as well as the Second Iraq War 2003. This study is particularity interested in the choice and dependency on certain conceptual metaphors by the two Presidents as well as the newspapers journalists in the conceptualization of the two wars as well as in the depiction of the major war actors. The theoretical framework for the dissertation includes Cognitive Linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis and Corpus Linguistics. The aim is to determine how the choice of certain conceptual metaphors by the two Presidents may have ideologically constructed a particular image of the two wars and their actors that is favorable to the two Presidents. Consequently, influencing others, here mainly journalists, to adopt the same image and eventually enabling themselves to achieve higher approval rates... |
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